Bombarding Cultivators with Cluster Artillery
Chapter 1254 - 1222: Passing the Huashen Heavenly Tribulation

"I, guilty?"

Jiang Ding was entirely engulfed in darkness, no longer able to see anything clearly.

"Ha, hahaha!"

In the next moment, he burst into laughter.

"A mere early stage Nascent Soul Cultivator, just a future lost soul under my sword, dares to condemn me to death, truly deserving of death indeed."

"You truly look like someone seeking death, Xuan."

The fear within Jiang Ding's Divine Soul vanished, and he spoke calmly.

Hum!

In the vast emptiness for tens of thousands of miles, at this moment, a chaotic Great Sun Magnetic Array Pattern suddenly appeared; a super Air-Space Mother Ship, and countless Air-Space Warships, Air-Space Warplanes, Dyson Sword-shaped Mirror Drones.

After that, Array Patterns began to emerge one after another in the vast starry sky, lines of Formation Dao grew and spread, quickly enveloping the entire world, gathering the boundless light from countless Sun Stars, forming destructive powers of order.

Sun Magnetic Flare Array!

What's more, it wasn't just the Formation Method of the Super Warship Great Sun, but also the Starry Sky Great Array that Jiang Ding personally laid out and concealed within the starry space.

Originally, this array was intended to enhance the power of Heavenly Tribulation, to prevent insufficient strength and miss out on many opportunities.

The current reality proves that Jiang Ding's horizons were still rather narrow, the unknown starry sky conceals too much unknown, too many powerful beings.

He's not invincible by any means, not even within the narrow scope of cultivators of the same realm.

Hum!

Clang, clang clang!

In the vast starry sky, the light from the massive array converged; the Taiqing Flying Sword also rang out in clangs, Great Sun Destroying Sword Intent burst forth, Six Paths Order rejuvenated, instantly severing the chains around him.

Light returned to the world.

Jiang Ding looked back at the starry sky, only now realizing that everything just now seemed to be an illusion, merely a Divine Soul Swordsmanship derived from the opponent combining their Divine Soul with the Heavenly Dao.

Now, having broken it, it naturally ceased to exist.

However, if not for this array pre-arranged within the vast starry sky, it wouldn't have been so easy. A moment's delay could mean a sword strike and a head falling, with no chance for luck.

"I sense it, the smallest gap between us exists in Divine Soul and Sword Intent."

Jiang Ding's gaze was fixed on the Black-clothed Swordsman within the dark Thunder Tribulation Clouds: "Xuan, I will truly appear before you. Before that, do not die at the hands of others."

"You will die by my hand."

Clang!

"Sinner,"

The Heavenly Sword Sword Son Xuan lightly drew his Longsword.

"Shall be executed!"

In a flash, tens of thousands of miles of dark clouds came rolling in, blocking out the sun, obscuring all light once again; even the Sun Magnetic Flare Array sank into darkness, leaving only a few bright columns of light struggling, as if wrestling and clashing with the sky but unable to prevent the coming of endless darkness.

The green-clothed youth began to fall into ignorance and darkness anew.

Under such terrifying power, he was not as strong as he had proclaimed, his words extremely pale.

"Nine Nether Thunder Punishment Demon Slaying Immortal Sword!"

The Heavenly Sword Sword Son murmured to himself.

Endless Heavenly Tribulation Thunder, following his words and will, all merged into this one sword, as if the consciousness of the Heavenly Dao of the boundless universe was awakening, endowing it with infinite power.

Within that Sword-light, there was also a terrifying yet familiar essence that seemed to tear one's Divine Soul apart.

Immortal Technique!

This Sword Move must contain insights from Immortal Technique.

Nearly Immortal Level sects of the Upper Realm, like Lei Yang, with their Heavenly Sword Realm, must have an inheritance of complete Immortal Techniques!

This sword, with its Sword-light illuminating the boundless universe, entered into the pupils of the green-clothed youth, arriving in an instant, imprinting in his entire Divine Soul, seemingly freezing the Divine Soul, and aimed to instantly slay all opponents.

The Upper Realm, clearly in possession of more detailed and terrifying applications of Immortal Techniques!

But can it really freeze an enemy's Divine Soul?

"Immortal Technique?"

"I have it too..."

Jiang Ding whispered, with nothing to hesitate about, he immediately fought for his life, Burning Essence Blood, drawing his Longsword, boundless Mana and Divine Sense surged within his meridians and Divine Soul, his aura exploded manyfold, his murderous intent filling the Star River.

"Fellow Daoist!"

"Now observe, how does my sword compare with yours?"

Clang!

He drew his sword.

The Sun Magnetic Flare Array flickered in response, boundless Great Sun light pierced through the darkness from the starry sky, descending here, instantly piercing the pitch-black Thunder Tribulation Clouds, and light once again shone upon this piece of the starry space.

Boom!

The Super Battleship Great Sun roared, followed by countless warships and fighters that thundered together, their main guns emitting beams of light that converged next to the Taiqing Flying Sword, creating a force filled with the power of the Great Sun's solar flares, which surged into the Taiqing Flying Sword and the world of the Sword Dao.

Under the reckless Burning Essence Blood, assisted by the Starry Sky Great Array spanning thousands of miles, the Taiqing Flying Sword shone with unprecedented brilliance!

The Power of the Destruction Order!

The Power of the Elimination Method Order!

The Power of the Forbidden Law Order!

The Power of the Mutant Order!

The Power of the Primordial Magnet Order!

The Power of the Sword Dao Order!

And also the power of the Sun's solar flares, which centrally harmonized and integrated them all, the Taiqing Flying Sword was covered with golden thread patterns all over, shining unprecedentedly bright and blistering, emitting a terrifying aura like that of the true Great Sun.

Around the Taiqing Flying Sword, countless Blood Gold Patterns once again spread throughout the heavens and earth!

Jiang Ding's eyes were blood red.

He looked towards the Thunder Tribulation Clouds, and within them at the Swordsman amidst the dreadful sword-light, catching a glimpse of an almost imperceptible Blood Gold Pattern, fleeting yet as exquisitely beautiful as the hem of a Fairy's dress.

"Cut!"

Jiang Ding uttered a single word softly.

All mana, all Divine Sense, every bit of power transformed from the Burning Essence Blood, flesh, and Divine Soul surged into the Taiqing Flying Sword, one strike delivered without regret.

Whoosh!

Blindingly bright, scorchingly hot, the Taiqing Flying Sword that was nearly about to self-destruct let out a long howl, following the path marked by the Immortal Technique prototype - the Destroying Golden Sword, at a speed far surpassing the pathways of rules, it struck towards that glimmer of life Jiang Ding saw in the dark, resolutely without regret.

Under the cross of two beams of sword-light, it seemed as though heaven and earth itself had come to rest.

Order ceased to exist, rules were shattered.

The minds of all living beings between heaven and earth went blank, losing consciousness.

Who knows how much time passed.

Ding!

Amidst the heaven and earth, a piercing metallic crash sounded.

Two beams of sword-light intersected!

It didn't result in one party having their defenses completely invalidated, one side being obliterated as if crushed by a rolling boulder.

This was to be expected.

Because this Swordsman was cultivated with all resources by a Near Immortal Level force, a terrifying existence that was qualified to seek the realm of the True Immortal.

Yet now, an abnormal scene emerged.

The gaze of the Black-clothed Swordsman in the Thunder Tribulation Clouds sharpened.

Sizzle...

Sizzle sizzle...

The two beams of sword-light began intertwining, but there was no terrifying explosion, nor the clean and decisive obliteration of the enemy as before; instead, they became entangled.

One pitch black, one dazzling, the twin beams of sword-light entangled like dragons, easily melting down thousands of miles of starry sky, destroying order and snapping rules, with the starry heavens at times becoming brilliantly illuminated, the Primordial Magnet Order becoming chaotic, the Destruction Order surging, at times as imposing and profound as a Heavenly Tribulation annihilating sinful beings.

The two beams of sword-light faced a brief stalemate.

A moment later, the dazzling sword-light began to collapse, conceding defeat in the contest of swordsmanship.

Even though her power had surpassed her opponent by several times after Burning Essence Blood and Divine Soul, even though her own physical flying sword was far stronger than the sword shadow summoned by her opponent, even though... with so many advantages, she was still defeated.

In the realm of Sword Dao, in the developed sword moves from understanding Immortal Techniques, and even in the fundamental potentials, she was completely outclassed by her opponent.

"This is what a Near Immortal Level Swordsman from the Immortal Sects looks like."

"He outclasses me in every aspect, even in the closest aspects of Divine Soul and Sword Intent; the difference is significant."

Jiang Ding watched the scene with cold detachment.

His body turned into ash and fell away, his Divine Soul shrank continuously, his meridians dried up, Burning Essence Blood and everything, yet still defeated.

But he had no fear, no trepidation, no unwillingness.

Because he had won.

"I am not your equal."

"But I have won, Near Immortal Level Swordsman, Xuan."

Jiang Ding said coldly: "We will meet again, please take care of yourself, do not die by someone else's hand, that would leave me regretful."

The clouds in the starry sky slowly dissipated.

The seventh, which is the last Heavenly Tribulation, fell, ceasing due to lack of following power, even though he would have won after just a few more breaths' time.

"Great Sun Swordsman..."

In the gradually dispersing Thunder Tribulation Clouds, the Heavenly Sword Swordsman Xuan looked deeply at the green-clothed youth below for a moment, then completely disappeared.